River To Ocean Chivezo Chinopfekwa by Yiyao Nie

River To Ocean Chivezo Chinopfekwa by Yiyao Nie is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Mubairo weSirivha we A' Design Award in Hunyanzvi Hwakaisvonaka neKuiswa kweHunyanzvi Competition Category.

SirivhaHunyanzvi· 2021

River To Ocean Chivezo Chinopfekwa

by Yiyao Nie

Client: Yiyao Nie

Mubairo weSirivha we A' Design Award Winner in Hunyanzvi Category

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The Design

About River To Ocean Chivezo Chinopfekwa

River to Ocean iunganidzwa hwezvivezwa zvinopfekwa zvinogona kupfekwa pamuviri kana kuratidzwa mugarari. Iunganidzwa uhu hunosanganisira ngowani nejasi, hunoratidzwa nenguo dzomucheka nekushongedzwa pamashangu. Chidimbu chimwe nechimwe chakafanana nemvura inopfachuka yakaomeswa munguva, chinoyeuchidza madonhwe emvura pamaruva kana rwizi ruchirovana nematombo. Zvimiro zvakagadzirwa mu3D software, zvakadhindwa muresin sezvidimbu zvidiki, zvobva zvapendwa uye zvasonganiswa nemaoko. Zvimiro zvikuru zvinoramba zvakareruka. Mapazi ejasi anogona kubviswa uye kuvakwazve kuita zvimiro zvitsva.

The Recognition

About the Mubairo weSirivha we A' Design Award

Mubairo weSirivha we A' Design Award wakahwinwa ne River To Ocean Chivezo Chinopfekwa, rukudzo rwakakwirira zvikuru runopiwa kumadhizaini epamusoro, anonaka uye anofadza. Vakunda veSirivha mabasa anopenya kwazvo uye ane kugadzira kwakasiyana anoratidza unyanzvi, hunyanzvi hwekusikwa nekungwara kwevagadziri vawo. River To Ocean Chivezo Chinopfekwa inotarisirwa kuva basa rinoshamisa, rinotangira vamwe, rine hunyanzvi hunoonekwa uye zvitsva zvakadzika. Dhizaini iyi yakahwina Mubairo weSirivha we A' Design Award chigadzirwa chinoshamisa, chinokudzwa chinobatsira uye chinosundira mberi miganhu yehunyanzvi, sayenzi, dhizaini netekinoroji. River To Ocean Chivezo Chinopfekwa chigadzirwa chinoshuvirwa nevazhinji, chinomutsa zvishuvo, chinouya nemanzwiro akanaka uye chinomutsa kushamisika.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Nie teamed up with fashion designer Qiongxin Kou to create the collection River to Ocean which debuted at London Fashion Week 2020. River to Ocean combines Kou’s textile work with Nie's 3D printed sculptures that resemble splashing liquid frozen in time. The models were Nie's 3D design and sculptures as hats, vests, and decorations on their shoes.
The wearable sculptures mimic different forms in moments of how water drops on flowers or collide with rocks.
Dimensions & Packaging: Hat: Width 300mm x Depth 300mm x Height 400mm
Vest: Width 600mm x Depth 600mm x Height 800mm
Tags: Sculpture, functional sculpture, wearable sculpture, art, craftworks
Production Technology: The hat and the vest are created and designed in 3D software first, then 3d printed into small parts using raisin material, and finally painted, assembled and crated by hand as a wearable sculpture.
Design Challenge: The biggest challenge here is to transform the sculpture into a wearable and comfortable hat and vest. The piece is designed to be able to break down into small pieces and easily and freely assemble back into different forms, giving the vest a more dynamic look, also easy to carry out and recycle.
Research: These wearable sculptures explore the way to make sculpture into wearable art frozen in time, material friendly, and non-unidirectional value under the balance between the ecosystem and the human body. It carries out experiments on its development potentials and various techniques of 3d manufacturing process based on the resin materials. The combination of fashion and sculpture remade the piece as mixed media for artworks, giving people strength and contemplation while wearing or looking at it.
In fact, to accept self or see who we really are is the most challenging thing in life, many people use their whole lives to compromise with themselves, to heal the pain they got from childhood hard memories or frustrating time that had destroyed their confidences. To know, to see and to accept oneself could create beautiful moments in life, this principle will release so much pain and build so much courage and brightness, and this goal forms the essential thought for this collection.
The inspiration of the hat comes from the water drops on the flower, splashes, and frozen in the air, this is the birth of life. For the vest, it’s the moment the river flowing into the ocean, colliding with the rocks, breaking apart, frozen in time, this is the struggle of life.
To use sculpture to memorize these important moments in life and then wear it in the body is a healing journey and also a form of newborn.
Inspiration: “River To Ocean”, seeing who you are while flowing your way. This concept is a metaphor to illustrate the moment in life that one who finally finds a true self throughout his/her past experiences. As a Chinese proverb has said, “The small me meets the big me” which means that one will bravely face up to and accept true selves throughout what he or she has experienced.
Project Duration: “River To Ocean” is made for and showcased in London Fashion Week 2020 F/W. It started in December 2019 and ends in February 2020. The whole making process had been done in New York and California.
Operation Flow: The wearable sculptures are designed to be worn or displayed in a gallery. They are in big silhouettes but fairly light weight. With putting on the 3D printing piece, you can flexibly move but need to pay attention to things around you due to its volume structure. The multiple branches of the vest are designed in a way to be easily broken down and restructured into new forms.
Patents: Yiyao Nie
Team Members: Yiyao Nie: 3D/sculpture artist and technologist
Qiongxin Kou: Fashion/Textile designer
Image Credits: Yiyao Nie
Qiongxin Kou